Mars looks like a sliver of light in the first images NASA’s Psyche spacecraft snapped of the Red Planet on May 3, 2026. Shot from roughly 3 million miles (4.8 million km) away, the pictures show a ...

NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final target. And it took some awesome pictures on the way.

(NewsNation) — NASA's Psyche spacecraft has snapped a new set of Mars photos. The probe used the planet's gravity to pick up speed and tilt its trajectory on its journey to a metal-rich asteroid, but ...

On May 15, 2026, at approximately 3:28 PM Eastern time, NASA's Psyche spacecraft reached its closest point to Mars: 4,500 kilometres above the Martian surface, traveling at 12,333 mph (19,848 kph).

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has captured a rather mesmerizing time-lapse video of Mars during its recent high-speed gravity assist flyby, offering a different view of the Red Planet’s craters, vast ...

The Psyche probe, launched in October 2023 on its way to the metallic asteroid it will study, recently performed a flyby of Mars to take advantage of its gravitational pull and continue its trajectory ...

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The probe used the planet’s gravity to pick up speed and tilt its trajectory on its journey to a metal-rich asteroid, but NASA also took the opportunity to grab photos of Mars’ surface. The images, ...